Pamela Jaye Smith

PAMELA JAYE SMITH is an Author, international Consultant/Speaker, and award-winning Producer/Director with over thirty years experience in features, TV, music videos, commercials, documentaries, corporate, and military films, and web series.

MYTHWORKS is Pamela’s consultation and information company featuring “Applied Mythology for more Powerful Reality”. She teaches and consults on story, communication, leadership, and creativity.

MYTHWORKS also consults with organizations and individuals redesigning themselves and their images.

Clients and credits include Fox, Microsoft, Disney, Paramount, Universal, RAI-TV Rome, UCLA, USC Film School, American Film Institute, Natl. Film Institute of Denmark, Great American PitchFest, STORYexpo, Pepperdine University, Natl. Assoc. of Broadcasters, LA Webfest, Marseille Webfest and variousother film festivals and story conferences.

Others include the Institute for Global Transformation, the Consciousness Expo, American Assoc. of University Women, Junior ROTC, General Motors, Boeing, Hyundai, Hughes Space & Communications, the FBI, and the U.S. Army.

Ms. Smith served on the Entertainment Industry Council think-tank, a Boeing Think Tank on Workforce Development, and Birth2Work, an organization dedicated to Redefining Community Leadership with a focus on education.

During the 1990s she was part of the U.S. Army’s Advanced Warfighting Working Group.

Pamela lectures and consults on Group Dynamics, Divergent Thinking, Leadership, the Warrior Spirit, Ethics and Values. Her production company wrote and designed the Command Briefing CD for the U.S. Army Signal Command. She is also a Production Consultant, helping companies plan and produce their media projects more efficiently and effectively.

Various projects have taken Smith to the Arctic, the Andes, SE Asia, Europe, and New Zealand. She has filmed on the largest off-shore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, slept in grass huts and eaten guinea pig under Ecuador’s highest volcano, caught her own sushi in the Leyte Gulf, and rappelled into the jungles of Mindanao searching for lost WWII Japanese gold.

Director Joel Schumacher & Pamela Jaye at Universal Studios

In the 1980s Pamela spent four years in production at Universal Studios working on TV series, feature films, and TV movies. She then was a free-lance producer, director, production manager and assistant director on commercials, music videos, documentaries, military and corporate films.

Pamela is an avid reader, drives classic cars, and enjoys opera. A dilettante approach to sports has included surfing, skiing, snorkeling, flying, go-cart & auto racing, and driving an off-shore oil rig and an Army tank — both under close supervision.